Star 'wouldn't be alive if she listened to nasty comments'

FORMER X Factor judge Dannii Minogue has said she would “not be alive” today if it were not for her resilience when dealing with “nasty” comments about her appearance.

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The Australian singer and TV presenter, 53, said she was compared to her older sister Kylie in the press, and was made to feel that she should be as slim as her.

“The hardest time I had was not long after I arrived in the UK, and photographers were literally throwing themselves on the ground to get angles and shoot up your dress and your skirt,” she told the Happy Place podcast with Fearne Cotton. “It was horrendous. So I had that, I was 19 when I arrived, I'm still a teenager.